Panel Convener: Shahwar Kibria Maqhfi, UCLA. This panel aims to bring together diverse ideas of being Muslim in contemporary South Asia. We wish to explore multiple articulations and evidence of sameness through sound, image, text, performance, active recollection, and memory, in the context of increased otherisation. We are therefore interested in papers, which explore junctures, events, overlaps, and nodes, situated across time and space, which act as vestibules between the idea of “Muslimness” and “belonging”. Conceptions of Muslim belonging may not only be appended to notions of religiosity, but also explore linkages with class, caste, gender, hegemonies, place making, pioneership, and rootedness. The aim is to move beyond problematising the ills of authority and representation / mis-representation and invest in narratives which are first-person, self-reflexive, and agency specific. We look forward to hearing from early career scholars, advanced doctoral candidates as well as established academics from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to, ethnomusicology, film and media studies, history, literary studies, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, law and governance, economics, and performance studies. Abstract submission link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1k8Az6NuUvf7Zdhb3dtFzhjgkGUB15rRILZRW2sTVlMA/edit Please send an abstract in about 150-200 words and a brief bio by 2 April, 2024 to soufieshahwar11@g.ucla.edu